However, the idea that Sweden is a socialist Utopia ... support for the high tax rates that subsidized the welfare state. Now, with higher immigration rates and increased diversity, Swedes may ...

Sweden is a welfare state par excellence; it has one of the highest rates of gender equality in the world and is a leader on ...

a lawmaker and the Sweden Democrats spokesperson on immigration, suggested the policy would most appeal to migrants who were long-term unemployed or reliant on state welfare. Aspling also ...

The biggest winner of the evening was the populist anti-immigration Sweden Democrats ... an equal society and a strong welfare state, remains strong in Sweden. The conservative bloc was led ...

Sweden must drive down immigration and improve integration to ... that already offers refugees about £720 and travel costs. The welfare system also needs to be overhauled, the minister said ...

Proponents of the policy, particularly members of the Sweden Democrats, argue that it will help ease the burden on Sweden’s social welfare system ... in Sweden’s immigration policy ...

Sweden has been enjoying it both ways. The spirit behind Sweden’s elaborate welfare state comes from a quarter of a century of Socialist rule, but the money that supports it is provided by an ...

Immigration restrictionists love to quote Milton Friedman's line that "[y]ou cannot simultaneously have a welfare state and free immigration." There are lots of other rationales for immigration ...

In 1914 Sweden’s first modern immigration law was promulgated ... alternative way to respond to widespread feelings of loss caused by the erosion of the welfare state. While the Sweden Democrats ...

As an advocate for freedom in immigration, one of the objections to my position I hear most often is: “immigrants abuse the welfare state by taking from a system they haven’t contributed to.” ...